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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6397775" data-attributes="member: 22779">Actualy, I think I will agree with this.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp; If you are creating a published setting, canon is very, very important.&nbsp; I earlier said that a setting is largely defined by its canon and I'm going to stand by that.&nbsp; Strip out Harpers, The Sword Coast and Waterdeep from Forgotten Realms and that's a very different Realms.&nbsp; A setting has to be coherent and coherence requires adherence to what came before.Yes, something like the Manual of the Planes does have some material for building your own planes, but, about 90% of the material is devoted to the setting of The Planes.&nbsp; I'm not really interested in buying supplements for 10% (and that's generous) of the content.&nbsp; I'll have to look into that Beyond Infinite Doors (Countless doors?&nbsp; It's back one page and I'm too lazy right now to look it up).&nbsp; I've heard lots of good things about that.However, Remalthalis has pointed out to the SRD for a source of resources.&nbsp; I'm not really convinced.&nbsp; The OGL material, particularly Pathfinder isn't really different from The Planes.&nbsp; They present complete settings, not really resources.&nbsp; But, to be entirely fair, I've not looked into it too closely, mostly out of a very strong lack of interest in planar stuff for D&amp;D.&nbsp; :/&nbsp; Years of The Planes have pretty much soured me on planar stuff in D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6397775, member: 22779"] Actualy, I think I will agree with this. :p If you are creating a published setting, canon is very, very important. I earlier said that a setting is largely defined by its canon and I'm going to stand by that. Strip out Harpers, The Sword Coast and Waterdeep from Forgotten Realms and that's a very different Realms. A setting has to be coherent and coherence requires adherence to what came before. Yes, something like the Manual of the Planes does have some material for building your own planes, but, about 90% of the material is devoted to the setting of The Planes. I'm not really interested in buying supplements for 10% (and that's generous) of the content. I'll have to look into that Beyond Infinite Doors (Countless doors? It's back one page and I'm too lazy right now to look it up). I've heard lots of good things about that. However, Remalthalis has pointed out to the SRD for a source of resources. I'm not really convinced. The OGL material, particularly Pathfinder isn't really different from The Planes. They present complete settings, not really resources. But, to be entirely fair, I've not looked into it too closely, mostly out of a very strong lack of interest in planar stuff for D&D. :/ Years of The Planes have pretty much soured me on planar stuff in D&D. [/QUOTE]

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